Tag Archives: isadora Duncan

liberal bias: in-conscience of a liberal

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

The quintessential bleeding heart liberal, the kind of perverse sensibility guided by blinders and unwilling and ineffective in bringing about meaningful change. The establishment liberal , who according to Joseph Conrad, was a “moralist who betrayed rather than revealed the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.j. cronin, Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, edward garnett, Ford Madox Ford, george elgar hicks, H.G. Wells, isadora Duncan, John Sloan, Joseph Conrad, L.S. Lowry, leon schalit, nick hubble, raymond duncan, ross mckibbon, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith, zinaida serebryakova | Leave a comment

“TO AWAKE. TO DIE. TO BE BORN”

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dave

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born in about 1872 in the Caucasus region of what is now Russia. The so called “rascal sage” heralded the coming of ancient and esoteric Eastern teachings to the West. Neither a modernist nor a purveyor … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged A.R. Orage, Aldous Huxley, Avi Solomon, Carl Jung, Dennis Leri, Emma Kunz, Franz Wurm, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Ida Rolf, Ilya Koltz, isadora Duncan, J.B. Priestley, J.Walter Driscoll, Jacob Needleman, Katherine Mansfield, Kimberly Brooks, Malcolm Lowry, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Milton Erickson, Moshe Feldenkrais, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rudolf Steiner, Terry Wilson Isadora Duncan, Timothy Hull, Timothy Leary, Timothy Marvel Hull | Leave a comment

BANNING THE CORSET: PANTALOON LIBERATION FRONT

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Dave

Banning the corset and into the harem. Read my Body. “From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only practical consequence, we have to create ourselves as a work of art.” ( … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Amelia Jenks Bloomer, British Aesthetes, C. Willett Cunnington, Charles Frederick Worth, Condé Nast, Edward Streichen, Elinor Glyn, Georges Lepape, Greta Garbo, isadora Duncan, Jean Beraud, Jean Beraud art, Jean Cocteau, Joel Nikolaou, Josh Patner, Liz Eckermann, Maude Allen, Michel Foucault, Oscar Wilde, Paul Gernreich, Paul Poiret, Raoul Dufy, Sarah Bernhardt | Leave a comment

EMPIRE BURLESQUE:ANATOMY NOT GEOGRAPHY

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Dave

For centuries the principal ingredients in the popular Western image of the Middle East have been spirituality and sex. As early as the sixteenth century, European writers were using the second half of this irresistible combination to describe and define … Continue reading →